Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Senate races have tightened along with the presidential race. Watch to see how many Republican Senate candidates outperform Donald Trump - and how many hang on to their seats in states that he loses.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.